With Germanic and possibly surviving medieval European culture ways implanted in Pottawatomie County, a shared rural slaughterhouse in early Westmoreland provides clues. From oral accounts only, the author locates the site ...

Energy conservation has emerged as one of the biggest challenges of the world in the XXI century, and not different from many countries, the US has created plans and policies to stimulate renewable energy alternative. Among ...

A total of 69 sixth- through eighth-grade students rated their experiences with antisocial and prosocial teases as well as their general attitudes toward teases. Subsequently, the participants read hard copies of four ...

Understanding the influence of management actions and environmental conditions on demographic vital rates is important for effective conservation and management of wildlife populations. We used radio-telemetry to monitor ...

HIV/AIDS continues to advance relentlessly in the developing countries with the
Caribbean ranking second to sub-Saharan Africa in rates of infection. Using the social
influence theory that recognizes the role of opinion ...

Since small town newspapers are facing increased competition and technological changes that are threatening their survival, the purpose of this paper was to analyze the strategy-making activities of these organizations ...

Scalar wave scattering by many small particles of arbitrary shapes with impedance boundary condition is studied. The problem is solved asymptotically and numerically under the assumptions a d where k = 2 = is the ...

Perhaps nothing strikes more fear into the hearts of all tenure-track professors than the process itself. Are four papers in this journal good enough? Are eight papers in another okay? What if someone doesn’t like me or ...

After the stock market crash of 1929, the country fell into a deep financial depression. Devastated by losses, the citizens of the United States were eager for relief. President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised the people a ...

This study concerning health reform in Mexico focuses on the effects of gender roles on syphilis epidemics in Mexico, 1910-1940. Accepted gender roles of Mexican males and females, especially those pertaining to femininity ...

This paper examines how much financial development facilitates economic growth by nonparametrically estimating the e ffect of fi nancial development on reducing the costs of external fi nance to fi rms. The data reveal ...

We studied the elementary processes of excitation and ionization of atomic hydrogen in an intense 800-nm pulse with intensity in the 1.0 to 2.5×10[superscript 14] W/cm² range. By analyzing excitation as a continuation of ...

Grasslands are threatened globally due to the expansion of woody plants. The few remaining headwater streams within tallgrass prairies are becoming more like typical forested streams due to rapid conversion of riparian ...

Among the 713 newspapers in print in Kansas in the 1880s, a single short-lived newspaper provides insight into political shifts and battles in small towns. The Firebrand newspaper in Clay Center provided inflammatory ...

The earthworm fauna of North America is still greatly unknown, with undescribed native species and new records of invasive species continually being discovered. The most recent checklists are difficult to reconcile, since ...

General expressions relating the effects of pressure, temperature, and composition on solute association and conformational equilibria using the fluctuation theory of solutions are provided. The expressions are exact and ...